There, now--does that satisfy you ?" "Splendid! I can wait.

I can wait patiently--ever so patiently.

Once I was near selling the land for twenty thousand dollars; once for thirty thousand dollars; once after that for seven thousand dollars; and once for forty thousand dollars--but something always told me not to do it.
What a fool I would have been to sell it for such a beggarly trifle! It is the land that's to bring the money, isn't it Laura?
You can tell me that much, can't you ?" "Yes, I don't mind saying that much.

It is the land.
"But mind--don't ever hint that you got it from me.

Don't mention me in the matter at all, Washington." "All right--I won't.